Life in zee Burrow: Laundry

1 May 2012

Laundry

I have just spent the best part of an hour ironing in the kitchen. Ethan has kept me company for most of this time, having his supper, doing his homework and chattering on and on and on about the ipad3.

Ethan (walking past me and the big pile of laundry): 'Night then mum'

Me (peeling off a percentage of the pile and offering it to him): 'Wait- take these with you mate. And put them away in the place where they live.' (I add these 3 words as I've recently discovered a sizeable stash of his clothing, mainly unworn, on the floor behind his sofa bed).

Ethan: *SIGH*** (accompanied by rolling of the eyes)

Me: 'You realise that most of the laundry process in this house is automated, don't you? You wear the clothes, stick them in the wash and they get cleaned, dried, folded (or occasionally ironed) and all you have to do is put them away. You're onto a good thing really, yeah?'

Ethan: *SIGH*** (accompanied by rolling of the eyes)

Me: 'Oh- and the dressing of yourself. You do have to do that bit too. Are you going to need a hand with that one?'

Ethan: 'You know the ipad3 is faster than our broadband??'

Sayings by uzzers which I much like

They misunderestimated me (George W Bush)

That's not just pants- it's pants with poo in. (Jackson, 6)

Salvation is like being returned to factory settings. But you have to admit there is a factory, and that there could be some settings. (Milton Jones)

If we crash, I give you full permission to eat my bottom (Jo - colleague and true friend)

I'm incredibly bendy for a short man. (Hamish, 5' 5")

He stole it from me! He stole it- my precious, my .....oh no, it's in my pocket. (Russell Howard)

Dr. Kelso: I know it was you.
Turk: [waving the plug from the pac man game around] You mean this right here? It's mine from home.
Dr. Kelso: Forty Million, Son. You have any idea how many patients I had to ignore to get that high-score? People died. (Scrubs)

God gave you existence. Don't rest till you know why. (John Piper)

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Einstein)

EVERYbody needs somebody else. At least some of the time. People who disagree with this should try cutting their own hair. (Craig Fergusson)

God owns all the donuts (J John)

If your willy is called a penis, why isn't your bum called a poonis? (Jackson, 6)

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. (Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots)